The production company behind Spaced and Shaun of the Dead has been commissioned to produce a new Channel 4 comedy starring Tamsin Greig, The Inbetweeners' Simon Bird and Pulling's Paul Ritter.

Friday Night Dinner, a single-camera comedy, has been written by Robert Popper, former producer of Peep Show and co-creator of BBC2's Look Around You. It will be made by Big Talk Productions, which made Spaced, and Popper Pictures.

Each episode takes place over the course of a Friday night, as twentysomething brothers Adam (Bird) and Jonny (newcomer Tom Rosenthal) go round to their parents' house for their traditional Friday night dinner.

It was commissioned by the Channel 4 comedy and entertainment commissioning editor Darren Smith.

"Friday Night Dinner is a brilliantly funny, fresh and well observed take on family life with something of a dream cast – an irresistible commission from Robert's pilot," said Smith.

Friday Night Dinner was initially commissioned as a pilot for E4 but has not yet screened. It will now run as part of a full series on Channel 4.

"Many Jewish families – who aren't even remotely religious – have a tradition of Friday-night dinner," said Channel 4 in a statement announcing the new commission. "It's a time for food, family and general bickering. Sometimes candles are lit. Think Sunday lunch. Then take two days away, and move up one in the meal scale, and that's the setting."

Popper, a former commissioning editor at Channel 4, added: "I want the show to capture the way we all revert to being kids again when we go round to our parents'. But it's also pretty autobiographical, ie it features a dad who drinks ketchup straight from the bottle, just like mine."

Friday Night Dinner will be directed by Steve Bendelack (The Royle Family, The League Of Gentlemen) and executive produced by Big Talk Productions chief executives, Kenton Allen and Nira Park.

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